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There's nobody better on planet Earth
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than Elon at converting electrons to
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tokens. It's a critically important
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evolution to the story. SpaceX has this
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five-layer cake, launch, connectivity,
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compute, hyperscaler, space data
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centers, and then applications and
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models, and then other bets. And now we
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see the ace card that Elon's playing. He
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was building EWS all along. And so I
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estimate that this going to generate in
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this year an incremental 4 to 5 billion
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dollars of revenue on top of what I have
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seen analyst estimates in the mid-20s.
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That's a material amount of incremental
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revenue to offset the cost of the
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investments that he's made here, and
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that will subsidize, to Chamath's point,
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all that he's investing to build the
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next generation of Grok. Remember, too,
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that he has three facilities, Colossus,
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MacroHard, and MacroHarder, 1.2
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gigawatts at MacroHard and MacroHarder
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in Blackwell. So he's given the one
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that's kind of less connected, H 100's
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great for inference, to Anthropic. He's
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monetizing it in a big way. It's
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terrific for Anthropic. And it solves
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what I think was the biggest question uh
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in the valuation story, which is what if
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he spends ahead of x.ai's revenue. It
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takes the pressure, Chamath, off x.ai
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delivering immediate revenue. Now he
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becomes an immediate competitor in the
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hyperscale. I don't think this is the
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last announcement. And I would just say
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finally, you know, again, everybody has
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talked about how we don't have enough
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power, how we don't have enough compute,
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how the revenues would not show up this
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year. You know, but the chaos that is
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American capitalism somehow finds a way.
